The Director General of Police Ramniwas on Sunday chaired a meeting in Kanker and took stock of preparations going on for the upcoming State Assembly election. Inspector General of Police Bastar Ashok Juneja, Superintendent of Police RN Das along with other officials were present during the meeting.
Police sources informed that the DGP during the meeting directed to strictly stick with the norms laid under model code of conduct (MCC) for the election. He also reviews the situation of forces in the naxal infested district.
Notably the MCC was clamped in state from October 4 after the Chief Election Commissioner of India VS Sampath announced elections to be held in 5 state including Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh is the only state out of all five states were polling would be held in two phase. In the first phase elections would be conducted in 18 Naxal infested districts on November 11. The second phase falling on November 19 will cover the rest 72 seats of the 90 seats Chhattisgarh legislative Assembly.
The DGP also listened to the problems being faced by all key police officers in district. He also talked with the officers of Border Security Force (BSF) placed in the district during the meeting. Sources further said that during meeting the DGP mainly addressed security related issues like security of polling party while transporting them from one point to other, security at booth level and similar others.